Smaller. Smaller is the relative adjective (or sometimes adverb or noun) of small, indicating that referenced term it has more of the characteristic of smallness. I ordered the smaller of the two cup sizes offered. When using small, no other size needs to be explicitly considered.

2011年5月22日 · Joking aside, only less than and greater than are uniformly understood as < and > relation respectively; the other words (e.g. smaller, lower) are often used colloquially to mean less than, whose absolute values are less than, written smaller, etc however their usage are more ambiguous and so should be avoided when writing mathematics. EDIT:

2014年8月23日 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.

2020年12月4日 · The number of students this year is smaller than the number of students last year; I know that fewer is used for countables (e.g. "I have fewer children than my friend", or "I have fewer cars than a billionaire would have"), while less for uncountable (e.g. "I have less money than my friend"). Am I correct on this?

I am wondering about the correct use of lesser/smaller in the following phrase: This library has a smaller/lesser number of books than the National Library. I did find another thread on nearly the same question, where one answer states: "As a general rule, 'smaller' is used for size, whereas 'lesser' is used for quantity." In this particular ...

2015年6月27日 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely supported than that of the other symbols.

(1) A millimeter is ten times smaller than a centimeter. (2) A millimeter is smaller than a centimeter by a factor of 10. (3) A millimeter is smaller than a centimeter by a factor of 0.1. (4) My car is lighter than your car by a factor of x. Of 1-3, I think 1 is the best style and is fine mathematically. 2 and 3 show that there's a potential ...

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a city is "an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village"; a town is "a compactly settled area usually larger than a village but smaller than a city"; and a village is "a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town".

2019年1月14日 · My impression was that there was an implied scale, where a ravine is smaller than a gorge, which is smaller than a canyon. All of these geographical features seem to be created in the same way: a river or stream eroding hard rocky material, giving steep sides. Looking at Wikipedia, there are entries for both "ravine" and "canyon".

2017年11月19日 · It should also be noted that the bigger the measured distances, the smaller the variability and the greater the accuracy. Or should it be instead be written this way, with “extra” verbs: It should also be noted that the bigger the measured distances are, the smaller the variability is and the greater the accuracy is.